The early initial response by corporations, institutions, and government entities to combat cybercrime was to establish a barrier or a fence around their computer infrastructure. They wanted to setup a perimeter defense. However, always the creative types, criminal quickly found ways to circumvent these barriers. When you combine this ingenuity for pilfering with a few internal breaches by nefarious employees, organizations and corporate entities were forced to again revisit their cyber security perimeter and to question their strategy.
To combat the increased level of risk, organizations have been buying individual point product solutions to protect their databases located within the perimeter. Some of these solutions were designed to thwart any attack launched through e-mails, priority sign-in passwords,mobile applications accessed by employees or a combination of all three. The response was to throw the kitchen sink and more at the problem, which created IT departments deploying special, niche products from too many vendors that are unable to interact with each other. This leaves current Chief Information Officers with the task of consolidating disparate security measures and streamlining them into only one or two vendors who have successfully bundled the myriad of assorted products onto a single platform For the full article click here
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